Just post a list of the stuff you want hacked and the more patriotic hackers will enjoy doing it for free.

Due to the nature of hacking and what many people do to acquire such skills, they may not want to 'join up' and all that.

But if you post a list of IP's that are okay to bring down, and networks you want information stolen from, with the understanding that the US will not condemn any attacks, and I'm sure more than enough people would do it for free.

Is there anything like this already in place? Cause I got nothing better to do this weekend. Or most any weekend.

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YGTBKM! LOL! I like your enthusiasm, but you know the Air Force neither encourages nor condones criminal activity.

I was able to attend a talk on Cyber Command today and meet General Lord. Very interesting stuff. He's saying that it will really be five or so years before the command gets sorted out to any large extent.

Actually part of the talk addressed this. They'll be consolidating the folks that are already doing the same or similar jobs in other commands into the new one. Alot of the people moving over are currently doing network-related work or are in spacecom.

Basically his explanation for the whole command is that they're presently unprepared to provide troops for any sort of serious cyber war (his phrase). Currently when the need arises for any kind of a hackerish person, they take a green airman and send him to school for several years, then have him shadow someone from the NSA to get real-world experience. Having a multi-year delay on being able to put someone into the fray is obviously undesirable. So with the new command, they'll have folks trained up and ready to roll.

When asked direct questions about the activity that said command would take part in, he definitely put the emphasis on defense and skirted around addressing offensive capabilities. It sounded to me like there would be an offensive component, but he wasn't going to talk about it. Any kind of offense in that direction would require some changing (or at least serious reinterpretation) of the rules.